| That the Home Secretary reprieved Edmunds on ground of insanity rather than simply commuting her death sentence to a life term is intriguing. |
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| When the Home Secretary reprieved Edmunds's death sentence on ground of insanity many believed he based this decision on her gender and class. |
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| Acquittal rates were high and infanticide was the only form of homicide for which women might be reprieved or pardoned. |
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| They laughed like men reprieved, and when the bottle of whisky was finished Staten gripping it by the neck flung it far out to sea. |
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| The jaw fracture made it impossible to hang him humanely and for this reason he was reprieved! |
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| Rudge is hanged, Barnaby is reprieved from the gallows at the last moment, and Chester is killed by Haredale in a duel. |
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| Zhang himself was sentenced to death for his action, though Lin was immediately reprieved and placed under arrest. |
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| A reprieved Dr Rob turns over a new leaf, and places an illustrated lonely hearts ad. |
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| Bellamy had reprieved his hometown club from defeat at Reading in midweek with a free-kick six minutes into added time. |
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| Instead it reprieved the existing 164 grammar schools, leaving the way open for the current plans. |
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| John was reprieved and sent back to Cleveland, to a street festooned with yellow ribbons by his Ukrainian friends. |
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| According to Amnesty International, about 50 individuals were reprieved, with only three remaining on death row. |
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| He was caught excavating the graves of ancient kings, and we reprieved him his death sentence just before execution. |
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| Only O'Sullivan was reprieved at the last minute because of his youth. |
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| After the trial, amid much popular speculation over the justice of the sentences passed, authorities pardoned one of the prisoners and reprieved another. |
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| In modern times, only a few great writers have been reprieved by the Grim Reaper. |
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| But the reprieved du Bruyn and Buttler saw Somerset home comfortably enough with eight balls to spare. |
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| Davis's case has become even more charged by the manner of his death: he was reprieved three times before Wednesday night and an intervention by the supreme court delayed the execution by four hours. |
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| In 1989, President Carlos Menem simply pardoned hundreds of defendants, reprieved and set free those already convicted and made any new criminal proceedings impossible. |
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| The epidemic of closures that hit so many lines in France would no doubt have done for this line too had the 1974 oil crisis not reprieved the mine and line for some fifteen years. |
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| The Minstermen were pegged back by the visitors from the North West coast who were reprieved into the division in pre-season and have hit an incredible run of form. |
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| The library has been reprieved and will remain open for at least another year. |
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| Reprieved Robson has been lucky to have chairman Steve Gibson's backing when twitchier men would have fired him. |
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